The Pegasus Awards

	Lauren Oxford IF

Pegasus Awards
Award	Year	Category
	2023	Best Writer/Composer

 

Pegasus Nominations
Year	Category	Sample
2025	Best Performer	mp3
2021	Best Performer
2020	Best Performer
2019	Best Writer/Composer
2018	Best Writer/Composer

 

Lauren Oxford is a songwriter, folksinger, and multi-instrumentalist who stumbled into filk by befriending Cat Faber (who is still her very favorite convention travel partner) and never looked back once she found her chosen family, who have in turn supported, nurtured, and encouraged her every step along the way of her ever-expanding musical journey. Her songs are deeply vulnerable excavations, full of unexpected chords and crystalline imagery that aim to grab people and make them feel. Though they reward close listening, it's also easy to just sit back and be enveloped in the rich earthiness of her alto voice. And though her songs are intense, they don't feel as heavy when paired with her infectious enthusiasm, her goofy sense of humor, and a genuine love for people that injects an earnestness into everything she does.

Lauren has been a guest at conventions across the States, including Fan Fund Guest at Consonance 2025; Toastmaster at OVFF 2023, Consonance 2022, and GAFilk 2020; and Music GOH at WindyCon 2022. She was also the International Guest of Hono(u)r at the UK FilkCon in 2024. Her self-titled debut album was recorded by Eric Distad and friends in Oregon and released at OVFF in 2022. Her second solo album will be recorded in 2026 with the same exact people, with a projected 2027 release. In addition to her solo career, Lauren is also one fourth of The Starlight Darlins, a folk "queertet" who combine their stunning original songs with carefully arranged banjo, fiddle, guitar, bodhrán, and four-part harmony.

Lauren makes her home in the lush Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee with her wife Emma (a graphic designer & illustrator for a nonprofit partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park) and their three cats, Ansel, Henri, and Alli.

You can find the whole collection of Lauren-related links here: linktr.ee/laurenoxford

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Representative Work for the 2025 Pegasus Awards

I Know What I Know (mp3)

Copyright © by Lauren Oxford
All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission

blinded by your worry,
thinking that you hold me down,
you fear that my freedom
is the cost of wanting you around

but this is how i see it:
i'm a kite upon the breeze
looking down and knowing
there's no flight without you holding me

wherever i go, love
you're the wind that my wings choose
i know what i know, love:
you're the home i can't wait to come back to

 

 

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